Daily Archives: Jun 27, 2026

The duty pistol has not been replaced so much as reconfigured. What used to be a handgun built around fixed iron sights is now increasingly treated as a platform for an optic, with the slide cut, sight height, screw placement, and even agency training standards built around that assumption. That...

The modern 9mm service pistol did not emerge from a single breakthrough. It was built through decades of experimentation in materials, action types, magazine design, and duty requirements, with each generation borrowing from the one before it. Some handguns became legends because they won contracts. Others earned their status...

Service pistols are supposed to be replaceable. Newer materials arrive, optics become standard, and procurement cycles move on. Yet some handguns keep showing up in specialized inventories long after their supposed successors take over the spotlight. That persistence usually comes down to a narrow set of traits: reliability under...